Professor Akimitsu Okamoto, Lecturer Satoshi Yamaguchi (Bioorganic
Chemistry) and a research team designed an alkyne-labeled steroid probe
for enabling activation of the precursor in a lipid bilayer membrane.
The results of this research were published on Scientific Reports.

A research group including members from Tokyo Institute of Technology
and RCAST have developed a real-time fiber-optic distributed sensing
system for strain and temperature. The system requires light injection
from only one end of the fiber and can achieve a sampling rate of 100
kHz, an improvement of over 5,000 times the conventional rate.

The research group have developed a new analytical method that uses the
rare metal tungsten to measure 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), a marker
for gene expression, one nucleotide at a time. This method holds promise
of contributing to advances in epigenetics and regenerative medicine
research by simplifying 5hmC detection in the genome, and accelerating
the pace in which knowledge on the initialization of cell functions is
accumulated.

The capability to localize an odor source is necessary for insect
survival and is expected to be applicable to artificial odor-tracking.
The insect-controlled robot is driven by an actual silkmoth and enables
us to evaluate the odor-tracking capability of insects through a robotic
platform. The results of this research were published on scientific
video journal "JoVE".